Culture Diversity

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Culture Learned

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Culture traditions are transmitted through language and learning... infants start through learning and interaction with other. Culture teaches Directly (like a parent telling their kids to do something). Also, learn through observation and experience. (what are the norms)

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Culture Shared

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Culture is transmitted through interactions with other people. Enculturation unifies people by providing common experiences and knowledge. Though culture constantly changes, certain beliefs, values, expectation, a child rearing

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Culture Symbolic

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Something verbal or nonverbal, a language or culture that comes to stand for something else. i.e. flags, language, and holy water

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Culture Natural

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Culture takes the biological urges we share with other animals and teaches us how to express them in particular ways. i.e. like eating (America is dinner, other cultures is a noon)

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Culture Instrumental

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People use culture to fulfill their basic needs for food, drink, shelter, comfort and reproduction. i.e. hunting animals and using fur for coats

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Culture Integrated

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-Cultures are integrated patterned systems.
-A culture trait is an individual item in a culture, such as a particular belief, tool, or practice.
-A culture pattern is a coherent set of interrelated traits
Many Customs, Institutions, and Values form patterns (when one pattern changes the rest change) i.e women in the 50's compared to today
- Set of core values integrates each culture and distinguish from others

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Culture Active

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- Culture rules tell us what to do and how to do it
- People use their culture to creatively, interpreting, and manipulating the same rule in different ways
- Different groups struggle over who's idea, values, and belief will live on

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Ideal Culture

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- Refers to what people say they do and what they should do

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Real Culture

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- refers to actual behavior

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Culture is both public/individual

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- How individuals feel, think, and act is as important as the public

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Individual/ Culture

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- are linked because social life is a process in which individuals internalize meanings of cultural messages

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Encompassing

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- All people have culture not just those with elite education and appreciation of fine arts
- Most significant culture forces those that affect us daily, especially influences during enculturation of children

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Unifying and Dividing Cultural Factors

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- Common cultural traditions can provide one basis for uniformity amongts members
- Americans through exposure to mass media come to share certain beliefs, knowledge, values and ways of thinking and acting

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Continued...
- Mass media, sports, movies, TV shows, TV shows, theme parks and fast food restaurants have become powerful elements of national culture
- they provide framework of common expectations and experience that can overrride differences in groups (like regiom, class, religion...)